Railway Unions in Australia organised labour of railway employees in
Australia operated under federal and State awards - this is a partial list of known unions. Many of the unions amalgamated over time, creating a complex trail of ancestry for some of the later unions.
Federal Award unions
The following unions were based on federal - Australian wide awards [1]
Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia (1921 - )
^The Australian Railways Union formed in September 1920 with the amalgamation of the Queensland Railways Union, the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, the Victorian Railway Union, the Railway and Tramway Employees Association of South Australia and the Tasmanian Railway Union. It was the first Australian all-grades organisation of railway workers and was federally registered on 8 February 1921. In 1993 the ARU merged with other unions to form the Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union. - see
http://archives-dev.anu.edu.au/icaatom-1.3.0/index.php/australian-railways-union-tasmanian-branch-deposit-2;isad
^Australian Railways Union. Western Australian Branch (1900),
On-track, A.R.U., W.A. Branch, retrieved 15 February 2014
^Saunders, Malcolm; Lloyd, Neil (1 November 2011), "Arbitration or collaboration? The Australasian Society of Engineers in South Australia, 1904-68.(Essay)", Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History (101), Australian Society for the Study of Labour History: 123(22),
ISSN0023-6942
^Australian Railways Union. Tasmanian Branch (1976), Tasmanian railway review : the official publication of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Railways Union, The Union,
ISSN0313-2374
Railway Unions in Australia organised labour of railway employees in
Australia operated under federal and State awards - this is a partial list of known unions. Many of the unions amalgamated over time, creating a complex trail of ancestry for some of the later unions.
Federal Award unions
The following unions were based on federal - Australian wide awards [1]
Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia (1921 - )
^The Australian Railways Union formed in September 1920 with the amalgamation of the Queensland Railways Union, the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, the Victorian Railway Union, the Railway and Tramway Employees Association of South Australia and the Tasmanian Railway Union. It was the first Australian all-grades organisation of railway workers and was federally registered on 8 February 1921. In 1993 the ARU merged with other unions to form the Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union. - see
http://archives-dev.anu.edu.au/icaatom-1.3.0/index.php/australian-railways-union-tasmanian-branch-deposit-2;isad
^Australian Railways Union. Western Australian Branch (1900),
On-track, A.R.U., W.A. Branch, retrieved 15 February 2014
^Saunders, Malcolm; Lloyd, Neil (1 November 2011), "Arbitration or collaboration? The Australasian Society of Engineers in South Australia, 1904-68.(Essay)", Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History (101), Australian Society for the Study of Labour History: 123(22),
ISSN0023-6942
^Australian Railways Union. Tasmanian Branch (1976), Tasmanian railway review : the official publication of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Railways Union, The Union,
ISSN0313-2374